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Security vulnerability database inclusive of CVEs and GitHub originated security advisories from the world of open source software.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 4 stories, 6 comments · first 2022-02-23 · latest 2026-10-09

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  1. …time. edit: they do appear to all be the same thing, and the advisory version wildcard is wrong: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/issues/6099
    comment by herpdyderp · 2025-09-08 · in NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
  2. …is currently incorrectly flagging all versions of these packages, not just the compromised ones. https://github.com/github/advisory-database/issues/6098
    comment by epmatsw · 2025-09-08 · in NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
  3. …security impact. We believe it makes sense to keep the advisory but to lower the severity to low." https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/3504#issuec...
  4. I am trying this on GitHub https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/1595
    comment by michaelermer · 2023-01-11 · in CVE-2022-23529 – node-jsonwebtoken
  5. …perspectives on severity (one of which is our own), but that we could do more to make that clear. https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/adviso...
  6. …love you to open an issue on the DB). We want to do a more complete backfill in the near future. https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/adviso...